Here are described three new species and one new subspecies of the bivalves from the Santonian of the Himenoura Group in an area of Amakusa-Kamishima in Kyushu. Atreta intulaevis sp. nov. is characterized by a single adductor scar. Accordingly Atreta can undoubtedly be classified into the Plicatulidae as already suggested by Cox (1964). Since Pycnodonte and Thyasira prospered in Africa, Europe and N. America from the Campanian onward, Pycnodonte amakusensis sp. nov. and Thyasira (Thyasira) himedoensis sp. nov. from the Santonian were probably among the older forms in each genus. Chlamys (s. l.) tamurai tamurai and Chlamys (s. l.) tamurai immodesta subsp. nov. are characterized not only by the surface ornamentation of Mesozoic pectinids, e. g., Camptonectes and Camptochlamys, but also by that of Cenozoic ones, e. g., Palliolum and Eburneopecten.
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